Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.
Cor, love a duck. And also Lawks-a-mercy. I said that inwardly, but outwardly I said, "Blimey, and also, what larks.
Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.
The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.
Even if matter could do every outward thing that God does, the idea of it would not work as satisfactorily, because the chief callfor a God on modern men's part is for a being who will inwardly recognize them and judge them sympathetically. Matter disappoints this craving of our ego, so God remains for most men the truer hypothesis, and indeed remains so for definite pragmatic reasons.
So in the path of love - rather than pulling our willpower together, using our discrimination, or working - we just cry inwardly.
Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.
God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values. " It reads, "Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes. "
My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.
Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.
For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.
Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.
